Vintage filter for cleaning rainwater
Do It Yourself / / December 19, 2019
We are so used to the constant availability of water, do not even think about where to take the water in case of its absence from the tap and in the stores. However, life - an unpredictable thing, and every one of us will be useful to have at least a general idea of a simple and cheap way to rainwater filtration. In addition, the resulting today's DIY device with due diligence could be turned into a very beautiful decoration element for the country house.
There is such an ancient book called Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cookbook, released back in 1909. In fact, it's a collection of tips on housekeeping + cookbook. In addition to the thousands of "old school" life hacking, it has and a way to filter the rain water coming from the drainage system.
In those days, we used to store liquids including wooden barrels, but in our reality this wondrous little thing may be able to replace the plastic container. However, fans will have to find the decor is a wooden barrel. Filtering is in any case will not change, and we are interested in it.
instruction
- Take a new wooden barrel.
- We set it at a certain distance from the ground, beneath the barrel of bricks or stones.
- Set the tap in the bottom of the barrel.
- Mount the barrel solid partition (as a material also preferably wood) at a height of about 10 cm from the bottom.
- We are making a large number of small wall holes, whereupon its sheltering water permeable cloth.
- Now it is necessary to make the "heart" - right filter "puff": first carefully pour a layer of pebbles net thickness of about 10 cm. Layer on top of it do clean river sand and gravel about the same thickness. Next is a layer of large (about the size of a pea) granular carbon. The ideal is charcoal made from solid maple.
- Fill up coal in a barrel, taking into account that it will fit in one more 10-inch layer of pebbles, but before you do the final layer, slightly tamped content.
- When the 4-layer filter is ready, cover it on top of another web. This cloth can be replaced to the extent of contamination, and the filter is recommended to update every spring and autumn.
As you can see, this document is intended for a large enough capacity, but if you want you can manufacture of even a compact filter plant pot, following the same procedure as the creation of filter interlayers.
The original article stated that resulting from this filtration the water is safe to drink, but this situation, we would recommend not to test your stomach and immune system strength without good reasons.